Film Noir is the origin and mother of all mystery, crime and detective movies and series with which we live today. It is hard for me to believe that any mystery and suspense recent movie hasn't at least one element that derives from this productive period for cinema. Film Noir itself is composed by a great set of unforgettable movies, but it is also the reason for other amazing movies to exist.
Film Noir movies are energetic and really entertaining; they somehow portray this sense of tension, mystery and crime of their time, but I think they were rather a way of escaping of your problems by being delighted and intrigued by the problems of the people in the screen (people surely wants to be detective too!). Besides of their plot, these movies feature some noticeable marvelous photography that create really beautiful shots like the one above this text. Moreover, Film Noir constructed a new face to women as 'femmes fatales', seductive girls that greatly influence men to do rather inconvenient things, but I also thing these films constructed a new image of partnership and complicity for men and women.
In my opinion, Film Noir is just magnificent, these guys were practically inventing everything that we use today in modern films. I mean, those years where highly creative, folks were practically constructing cinema as we know it! Amazing! It's hard to believe that someone can be that creative now that everything has been invented. What would have happened if Hitchcock hadn't make Physco? Would Tarantino be portraying violence as he does today? Maybe Physco doesn't scare anyone today, but this film open a whole new panorama for later cinematographers. All great directors nowadays would be anything is these folks of the XX century didn't exist!
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